The Galapagos: A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences by Karen S. Harpp,Eric Mittelstaedt,Noémi d'Ozouville,David W. PDF

By Karen S. Harpp,Eric Mittelstaedt,Noémi d'Ozouville,David W. Graham

The Galápagos Islands are renown for his or her distinctive natural world, inspiring Charles Darwin within the elaboration of his idea of evolution. but in his Voyage of the Beagle, released in 1839, Darwin additionally remarked at the attention-grabbing geology and volcanic starting place of those enchanted Islands. considering the fact that then, the Galápagos proceed to supply scientists with suggestion and important information regarding ocean island formation and evolution, mantle plumes, and the deep Earth.

Motivated by means of an interdisciplinary Chapman convention held within the Islands, this AGU quantity presents cross-disciplinary choice of contemporary study into the starting place and nature of ocean islands, from their inner most roots in Earth's mantle, to volcanism, floor procedures, and the interface among geology and biodiversity.

Volume highlights include:

  • Case experiences in biogeographical, hydrological, and chronological perspective
  • Understanding the relationship among geological techniques and biodiversity
  • Synthesis of many years of interdisciplinary study in actual strategies from floor to deep inside of the earth
  • In-depth dialogue of the idea that of the island performing as a usual laboratory for earth scientists
  • Integrated realizing of the Galápagos area from a geological perspective

Collectively, The Galápagos offers case reports illustrating the Galápagos Archipelago as a dynamic normal laboratory for the earth sciences. This publication will be of specified curiosity to a multidisciplinary viewers in earth sciences, together with petrologists, volcanologists, geochronologists, geochemists, and geobiologists.

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